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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
07-02-2018
‘Raketlancering was technisch hoogstandje, ondanks gecrasht onderdeel’
‘Raketlancering was technisch hoogstandje, ondanks gecrasht onderdeel’
HOE LIDAR DE ARCHEOLOGIE HONDERD JAAR VOORUIT HELPT
Onder het regenwoud verdwenen steden zien
De spectaculaire ontdekking van een Maya-megalopolis in Guatemala illustreert hoezeer nieuwe technologie de archeologie vandaag vooruithelpt. Ook in Vlaanderen kunnen we steeds beter door de bomen kijken.
Een verdwenen Mayastad in het regenwoud.
Wild Blue Media/National Geographic
VAN ONZE REDACTEUR PETER VANTYGHEM
BRUSSEL ‘Een sprong vooruit van 150 jaar’, noemt Stephen Houston, archeoloog aan Houston University, de ontdekking van een enorme Maya-stad in de jungle van Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador en Honduras (DS 5 februari). Het nieuws werd afgelopen weekend bekendgemaakt omdat National Geographic er deze week een documentaire aan wijdt. Daarin is de hoofdrol weggelegd voor het instrument dat alles mogelijk maakte: LiDAR-technologie.
dS VIDEO - Archeologen leggen littekens van WO I vast.
‘Laser imaging, detection and ranging’, kortweg LiDAR, is niet nieuw en de toepassing ervan voor archeologie begon al in 2004. In 2010 slaagden Arlen en Diane Chase erin om over de oude Maya-stad Caracol in tien uur tijd meer data te verzamelen dan archeologen tussen 1983 en 2000 deden die zich moeizaam met machetes een weg door de jungle hadden gehakt. De Chases keken daarbij vanuit een vliegtuig dwars door de bomen naar de bodem.
‘In de Ieperboog toont LiDAR een onthutsend reliëf van kraters en structuren uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog’
BIRGER STICHELBAUT Archeoloog
Het was een kwestie van tijd voor LiDAR ingeburgerd zou raken in de archeologie. In 2013 werd in de jungle van Cambodja de 1.200 jaar oude stad Mahendraparvata gevonden. ‘Met LiDAR zagen we ineens een haarfijn beeld van een complete stad waarvan niemand het bestaan vermoedde’, zei de Australische archeoloog Damian Evans toen. Sindsdien heeft hij in die regio meerdere steden gevonden en wordt gesproken van ‘het grootste rijk ter wereld’, maar dat dient nog bewezen.
Evans scande immers ‘maar’ 230 vierkante kilometer. In Noord-Guatemala werd in 2016 een gebied van tien keer zo groot onderzocht: er bleken 60.000 bouwsels op te staan.
Meten met licht
LiDAR was aanvankelijk niet bedoeld om archeologen blij te maken. De technologie is vergelijkbaar met radar, maar in plaats van radiogolven gebruikt ze licht. Vanaf een bepaald punt, bijvoorbeeld een vliegtuig, worden laserstralen naar een oppervlakte gestuurd. Dan wordt gemeten hoelang het duurt voor de straal terugkomt. Zo kan men de hoogteverschillen op het onderzochte oppervlakte vaststellen. Die data worden met behulp van gps vertaald in een topografische kaart van het terrein, waaruit de begroeiing desgewenst weggefilterd kan worden (‘digitale ontbossing’).
‘In de bossen rond Antwerpen heb ik in 2010 met een gps het hele loopgravensysteem afgestapt. Datzelfde werk kan ik nu in drie uur doen’
WOUTER GHEYLE
Onderzoeker UGent
Al in de jaren zestig diende LiDAR aardrijkskundig, oceanografisch en atmosferisch onderzoek, maar de enorme datasets die vrijkwamen, wekten in de jaren nadien een bredere interesse op. De Amerikaanse Ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa peilt ermee hoe dik de ijslagen aan de polen zijn en hoe snel de gletsjers smelten. New York gebruikte een 3D-kaart op basis van LiDAR-scans om zijn noodplan tegen overstroming op te maken.
Maya-specialiste Kathryn Reese-Taylor vertelt aan National Geographic hoe zij en anderen al decennialang de jungle van Guatemala doorzochten zonder ooit iets gevonden te hebben, laat staan een goed beeld te krijgen van een geheel. Nu is het alsof de mist opgetrokken is: het is duidelijk dat de vlakte tussen 250 en 900 na Christus erg druk bewoond was, naar schatting door 10 miljoen mensen. Er zijn enorme landbouwzones te zien, net als ook grote verdedigingsmuren en vier grote centra, compleet met pleinen en tempels. En dit is maar de eerste fase in een groot project dat 15.000 km² Maya-gebied in kaart wil brengen.
De ruïnes van Tikal in Guatemala steken boven het regenwoud uit, maar de nieuw ontdekte steden zijn nog groter.
Wild Blue Media/National Geographic
Mist trekt op
LiDAR wordt ook in Vlaanderen gebruikt. Sterker nog: van 2013 tot 2016 is de volledige oppervlakte van de regio gescand in opdracht van de overheid. In 2015 en 2016 werden veel van die gegevens ‘opgeleverd’. Dat betekent dat vandaag een enorme dataset beschikbaar is voor onderzoek. De overheid gebruikt die voor ruimtelijke planning, om nieuwe overstromingskaarten te maken, om de erosie van het landschap te bestuderen. Maar ook de archeologische sector zoekt er informatie.
Wouter Gheyle, wetenschappelijk onderzoeker aan de UGent, is zelf in Maya-gebied geweest. ‘De grote problemen in de jungle zijn toegankelijkheid en zichtbaarheid. Je herkent nog geen muur die op twee meter van je staat. Daarom is LiDAR zo belangrijk. Ik verwacht in de komende jaren nog veel andere ontdekkingen, al moeten die enorme datasets wel verwerkt worden. En dan moeten we de ontdekte structuren ter plekke ook gaan bekijken natuurlijk.’
Wat kunnen Vlaamse archeologen met LiDAR doen? Hier zitten geen steden in de bossen verstopt. ‘Nee,’ zegt Gheyle, ‘maar ook in Vlaanderen zijn boeiende ontdekkingen te doen en is veel erfgoed bewaard uit allerlei periodes. Ik bestudeer de archeologie van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. In de bossen rond Antwerpen heb ik in 2010 met een gps het hele loopgravensysteem afgestapt. Datzelfde werk kan ik nu in drie uur doen. We kunnen bosbeheerders adviseren op sommige plekken voorzichtig te zijn. Op de hoogtemodellen zien we veel zaken die we nog niet kenden, zoals grafheuvels uit de protohistorie en de Romeinse tijd, houtskoolmijlers uit de middeleeuwen, en vooral veel erfgoed van de twee wereldoorlogen.’
De Eerste Wereldoorlog (1914-1918) en de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1940-1945) hebben veel sporen nagelaten in het Belgische landschap. Tot dusver werden die vooral onderzocht via historische bronnen en lokale graafwerken, recent ook via grondscans. LiDAR doet, zoals in de jungle van Guatemala, ook hier de mist optrekken. De bossen in de Westhoek zijn de oudste getuigen van de oorlog, omdat ze in de decennia daarna minder opgeruimd en niet doorploegd werden, zoals de rest van het land. Archeoloog Birger Stichelbaut (UGent): ‘In de Cabourduinen in Adinkerke, bijvoorbeeld, een zeer mooi en goed bewaard duingebied, liggen sporen uit WO II boven op sporen van WO I, zoals batterijen en loopgraven. Op de Heuvelrug van Bellewaerde bevindt een onafgewerkte V1-lanceerbasis zich boven op kraters uit WO I. In allerlei kleine bossen in de Ieperboog, de zwaar bevochten oostkant van Ieper, toont LiDAR een onthutsend reliëf van kraters en structuren van WO I.’
Roofputten
En er zit evolutie in. De nieuwe generatie LiDAR, die de Vlaamse overheid aankocht in 2015, scant de bodem al zestigmaal gedetailleerder dan in 2003. Dat betekent dat er nu zestien metingen per vierkante meter zijn, wat het bodembeeld heel precies maakt. ‘Een micro-reliëf is wat we nu zien’, zegt Stichelbaut, die LiDAR-beelden gebruikt in de expositie Sporen van Oorlog, die vanaf 17 februari te zien is in het In Flanders Fieldsmuseum. Daar wordt de Eerste Wereldoorlog bekeken vanuit archeologisch standpunt.
Eén bizarre gelijkenis heeft de Westhoek ook nog met de Maya-ontdekking: in beide gevallen werden de vindplaatsen, lang voor archeologen en LiDAR-scans erbij raakten, al druk bezocht door illegale grafdelvers. Op de beelden in Guatemala zijn duizenden roofputten te zien.
Documentaire op zondag 11/2 om 20 uur op Channel 4. Op www.standaard.be/lidar kunt u zien hoe LiDAR doorheen de bossen kijkt.
In ‘DSWeekblad’ leest u zaterdag een uitgebreide reportage over oorlogserfgoed in de Westhoek.
Follow Musk’s description of the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy lift vehicle, which will give the U.S. a capability in space not seen since the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era.
Elon Musk (@ElonMusk on Twitter) re-tweeted this image from Brady Kenniston (@TheFavoritist on Twitter), who wrote: “Oh my god … Remote number one from Falcon Heavy!”
Elon Musk is founder of the private aerospace company SpaceX, which – on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 – successfully launched the world’s most powerful new space rocket, the Falcon Heavy. He’s also an inveterate tweeter, and a pleasure to follow on Twitter. The tweets below, shared with his nearly 19 million Twitter followers, gave us space fans the kinds of insights we used to only dream about.
Yesterday’s exciting and admittedly risky launch, SpaceX says, could mean game over for its private space company rivals. The Falcon Heavy will provide the United States a heavy-lift capability in space not seen since the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era.
Prior to the launch, Musk had told reporters that the challenges of developing the new rocket meant the chances of a successful first launch might be only 50-50. He said after the event:
I had this image of just a giant explosion on the pad, a wheel bouncing down the road. But fortunately that’s not what happened.
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on February 6, 2018, on its demonstration mission. It is now the world’s most powerful rocket.
Screams and cheers erupted at Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the massive rocket fired its engines and lifted into the sky. The Falcon Heavy is essentially three of SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 vehicles strapped together. In a typically Musk-ian touch of whimsy, the Falcon’s upper stage and test payload is Musk’s own old $100,000 cherry red Tesla Roadster sports car, and a dummy in its driver’s seat called Starman rocking to David Bowie’s Life on Mars.
Artist’s concept of the car and mannequin now its wway towards Mars’ orbit.
SpaceX has been working hard to bring the boost stages – the lower segments of the rocket – back to Earth in controlled landings. Here are two of them setting down.
Then the focus shifted back to the upper stage and its attempted burn to carry it toward Mars.
Can’t get enough? Check out the 30-minute video, below, from SpaceX. It’s an updated version of Tuesday’s live webcast and includes both side booster cameras and additional Starman views.
Bottom line: Tweets and video from SpaceX and Elon Musk on Tuesday’s successful launch of the Falcon Heavy. Go SpaceX!
Divorced father, 74, who claims to have lost his virginity to an ALIEN 'with a very nice body' is mocked by This Morning viewers (as Holly and Phil battle to keep a straight face)
Divorced father, 74, who claims to have lost his virginity to an ALIEN 'with a very nice body' is mocked by This Morning viewers (as Holly and Phil battle to keep a straight face)
David Huggins recalled the multiple alien encounters he's had since he was eight
Divorced father-of-one, from Hoboken, New Jersey, has painted the meetings
Part-time deli counter worker appeared via live video link on ITV's This Morning
Presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield interviewed him
Viewers watching at home were amazed they managed to keep a straight face
A seventy-four-year-old part-time deli-worker who claims he lost his virginity to an alien has appeared on This Morning via live video link to recall his saucy encounter.
David Huggins, a divorced father-of-one, from Hoboken, New Jersey, told the ITV show presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield that he was intimate with an extra-terrestrial called Crescent who had a 'very nice body'.
However, the duo could barely contain their laughter as David calmly claimed he had fathered hundreds of alien offspring over the years.
Viewers watching the segment at home praised Holly and Phil for not breaking down in hysterics while a serious David shared his story - including how different types of beings continued to visit him for decades and one female, whom he named Crescent, took his virginity at the age of 17 in the Georgia woods.
David Huggins, 74, from New Jersey, appeared on today's This Morning to recount how he believes he lost his virginity to an alien called Crescent when he was 17
This Morning presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby battled to keep a straight face
During the interview Phillip made amusing faces as he attempted to understand how exactly the interviewee had had the encounters for six decades
Viewers watching the bizarre interview took to Twitter to praise the presenters for keeping a straight face
The alien enthusiast, who had his first encounter aged eight when he was at the bottom of a tree in a field, has also replicated many of the meetings in paintings - which have been aired on Love and Saucers, a US documentary detailing his extraordinary claims.
Phillip looked bemused as he questioned David about why aliens had chosen him to father their offspring but he didn't have a clear answer.
He told This Morning: 'That was something I would like to know, I guess they want to do it on a gradual level.
'I haven’t asked them… I was always there for a reason and I would do whatever they asked me to do.'
But Holly wanted more evidence and said she wondered why, despite there being hundreds of meetings with the aliens, David hadn't taken any pictures as proof.
David appeared via live link from New York to tell Holly and Phil about how he first met an alien when he was just eight years old
David has spoken recently about his extra-terrestrial encounters for a documentary by director Brad Abrahams
David, who claimed he had last seen Crescent about five months ago, said he would try to take a photo the next time he visited with the beings.
Explaining about his encounters, David also claimed that a 'portal' had opened up in his bedroom after he moved to New York City when he was 19.
'That was very interesting I was having these experiences for months,' he said.
The extraordinary tale was too much for viewers watching at home, as one said: 'This alien sex man is the best thing I’ve ever seen on TV.'
The alien enthusiast has painted several images of Crescent who he claims took his virginity during an intimate moment in the woods
It's testament to Holly and Phil's interviewing skills that they didn't break down in hysterics as they listened to David speak about his alien encounters
Another added: 'I love people that are bonkers. They fascinate me. This bloke on This Morning lost his virginity to an alien called Crescent.'
'Seriously .. HOW ARE THEY DOING THIS .. I would be in absolute hysterics,' said one impressed viewer.
'HOW are @Schofe and @Hollywills keeping their cool with this guy? If Phil stared at me while I was trying to be serious like that I would’ve cracked,' said another.
'Best topic to see on a Monday Morning! ‘I lost my virginity to a busty alien called Crescent’ And also claims to have fathered babies,' joked another.
'I was walking in the woods, and I see a woman sitting under a tree – and she gets up and she starts coming towards me,’ he explains in the documentary.
‘I become very aroused sexually; I couldn’t get my pants down fast enough. I fall back on the ground and I’m lying there and she’s looking at me, and I reach my climax, which was quite painful, actually; it was very intense. And then I’m looking in her eyes and I pass out … Virginity lost.’
He continued his relationship with the beings and Crescent, even after his move at 19 to New York City. At times he even visited ‘there,’ the space or realm occupied by the extraterrestrials, he claims.
He says of Crescent: 'There was something very beautiful, something lovely about her. She had a very nice body. The only thing that was different about her was that she had very long fingernails and she had these very large eyes, and her face was very pale.'
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'I lost my virginity to an alien called Crescent'
'I lost my virginity to an alien called Crescent'
David Huggins from New Jersey is much like any other 74-year-old man. He has a partner and he has children. But there's one thing that makes David very different from the rest of us because he claims his partner and his children are actually ALIENS.
UFO lover David describes losing his virginity to an alien, called Crescent, after walking through a forest when he was just 17.
David joins us from New Jersey to share his extraterrestrial experiences with us.
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Man die werd ontmaagd door alien doet verhaal op Britse tv. Bekijk hier de beelden
Man die werd ontmaagd door alien doet verhaal op Britse tv. Bekijk hier de beelden
Een 74-jarige man die claimt te zijn ontmaagd door een buitenaards wezen mocht deze week in het Britse tv-programma This Morning zijn verhaal doen.
David Huggins uit New Jersey vertelde tegen presentatoren Holly Willoughby en Phillip Schofield dat hij intiem contact heeft gehad met een buitenaards wezen met een ‘prachtig lijf’.
Toen David claimde dat hij door de jaren heen ook buitenaardse kinderen heeft gemaakt, konden de presentatoren hun lach nauwelijks inhouden.
Ontmaagd
David vertelde hoe verschillende soorten wezens hem decennialang bezochten en één vrouwelijk wezen hem op 17-jarige leeftijd heeft ontmaagd in het bos.
De man, die naar eigen zeggen acht was toen hij voor het eerst contact kreeg met aliens, heeft veel schilderijen gemaakt over zijn ontmoetingen.
Onlangs is er een documentaire verschenen over zijn werk, getiteld Love & Saucers.
Poort
Op de vraag waarom de aliens hem hebben uitgekozen, antwoordde David: “Dat heb ik me ook altijd afgevraagd. Ik heb het ze nooit gevraagd. Ik deed wat ze maar wilden.”
Het duo vroeg zich af waarom David geen foto’s heeft gemaakt van de aliens. David antwoordde dat hij de volgende keer een foto zal proberen te maken.
Hij claimde ook dat er op een dag een ‘poort’ was geopend in zijn slaapkamer nadat hij naar New York City was verhuisd.
Bleek gezicht
Van daaruit kon hij naar eigen zeggen ‘de ruimte of het rijk bezoeken waar de aliens zijn’.
Over de vrouwelijke alien zei hij: “Ze was heel mooi en lief. Ze had een prachtig lijf. Het enige wat anders aan haar was, was dat ze hele lange nagels, hele grote ogen en een bleek gezicht had.”
We worden geboren als creatief genie, maar school maakt ons dom. NASA-wetenschappers doen schokkende ontdekking
We worden geboren als creatief genie, maar school maakt ons dom. NASA-wetenschappers doen schokkende ontdekking
De NASA ontwikkelde een creativiteitstest voor medewerkers van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie, maar de test werd uiteindelijk gebruikt voor schoolkinderen. De resultaten waren ronduit schokkend.
De NASA vroeg dr. George Land en Beth Jarman om een test te ontwikkelen waaruit moest blijken hoe creatief de raketwetenschappers van het ruimteagentschap waren.
De wetenschappers wilden vervolgens weten waar die creativiteit vandaan kwam en lieten de test maken door 1600 kinderen van vier en vijf jaar.
Buitengewoon goed
Tijdens de test werd onder meer gekeken hoe goed mensen in staat zijn om nieuwe, andere en innovatieve oplossingen te bedenken voor problemen.
Zo’n 98 procent van de kinderen bleek daar buitengewoon goed in te zijn.
De wetenschappers waren zo onder de indruk dat ze de kinderen vijf jaar later, toen ze 10 jaar oud waren, nog eens lieten testen. Het percentage bleek te zijn gedaald naar 30 procent.
Toen de kinderen op 15-jarige leeftijd nog eens werden getest, was nog maar 12 procent in staat om nieuwe en innovatieve ideeën te bedenken.
Dom
En hoeveel volwassenen staan na hun schoolperiode nog in contact met hun creatieve genie? Slechts twee procent.
De reden hiervoor is niet moeilijk te begrijpen. School is een instituut dat historisch gezien wordt gebruikt om aan de wensen van de heersende klasse te voldoen, niet die van het volk.
Om ervoor te zorgen dat de zogenoemde elite in luxe kan blijven leven moeten kinderen dom worden gemaakt en gehersenspoeld zodat ze het roofzuchtige systeem van kunstmatige schaarsheid, oneindige uitbuiting en onophoudelijke oorlogen accepteren en zelfs dienen.
Versneller
De tests hebben laten zien dat het brein op twee verschillende manieren kan worden gebruikt om te denken.
Je hebt enerzijds divergent denken, dat gericht is op het voorstellingsvermogen en gebruikt wordt om nieuwe mogelijkheden te bedenken.
De andere vorm is convergent denken, waarbij je oordeelt, een beslissing neemt, iets test, bekritiseert of evalueert.
Divergent denken werkt als een versneller, terwijl bij convergent denken de rem wordt ingetrapt.
Bestrijden
Als je op school nieuwe ideeën bedenkt krijg je vaak gelijk te horen: ‘Dat hebben we al eerder geprobeerd’, ‘Dat is een dom idee’ of ‘Dat gaat niet werken’.
“Als we in het brein kijken zien we dat neuronen elkaar continu bestrijden en de kracht van het brein doen afnemen omdat we constant oordelen, bekritiseren en censureren,” zei Land.
“Als we vanuit angst werken, gebruiken we een kleiner deel van ons brein, maar als we ons creatieve denken gebruiken, licht het helemaal op,” vervolgde hij.
Hij daagt ons uit weer op zoek te gaan naar de persoon die we waren toen we vijf jaar oud waren.
Japanese Rocket Followed By UFO On Jan 18, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Japanese Rocket Followed By UFO On Jan 18, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 18, 2018 Location of sighting: Japan During the recorded launch of a Japanese rocket, a UFO was seen flying past the rocket at high altitude. This being a no fly zone to keep aircraft safe is further proof that this was an alien craft. If you compare the size of the UFO with that of the rocket, you will see the UFO is over 20X the size of the rocket. Thats big! Scott C. Waring UFO Today states:
rocket to put a commercial planetary observational satellite into earth's atmosphere. The launch went perfectly, but during the launch a strange mysterious craft was filmed. This UFO was flying at the same altitude as the rocket. It was moving along with the rocket as it started it's orbit arround earth. What was this object?
SpaceX just launched a Tesla Roadster to Mars on top of the SpaceX' Falcon Heavy rocket.
This was the Falcon Heavy's maiden flight. It's the launch that everyone's been waiting for. The Falcon Heavy is a monster.
It has 27 engines, can generate more power than 18 747 jumbo jets, and is the most powerful rocket to fly since NASA's moon rocket, the Saturn V.
Even though this was a test launch, Musk took the opportunity to send some payload to space. A Tesla Roadster, which will eventually reach Mars' orbit.
And what a coincidence! Elon Musk shoots his car into space and we are witnessing UFO's floating around his car and it is not some sort of space dust, these objects hover, stop and start to float again.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEindelijk, klinkt het bij diegenen die er al maanden naar uitkeken: de krachtigste raket sinds maanraket Saturn V is deze avond de ruimte ingestuurd onder het oog van een luid juichend publiek. Aan boord: de rode Tesla van Elon Musk. Hij hield dus woord.
Je weet maar nooit wie binnen miljoenen jaren ons zonnestelsel met een bezoekje vereert. Al staat één ding vast: ze zullen in de baan om de zon plots een rood voertuig zien cirkelen. Een Tesla Roadster, met uitneembaar glazen dak. “De snelste wagen ter wereld in 2017, toch volgens de oprichter van Tesla, Elon Musk”, zullen ze op het internet (?) zien verschijnen wanneer ze op zoek gaan naar wat meer informatie. “In de ruimte gestuurd op 6 februari 2018.”
Vandaag dus. En wat al maanden als grap werd bestempeld, bleek nu toch waar. Elon Musk - ook oprichter van ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX - postte gisteren nog een foto op sociale media: z’n auto zat vastgegespt boven in de Falcon Heavy-raket.
Bij een testvlucht is de kans op mislukken altijd groot. Dan mag er geen cruciale satelliet verloren gaan, en al helemaal geen mensenleven. Daarom worden zulke raketten geladen met ballast. Meestal is dat beton, maar voor deze vlucht koos Musk dus voor zijn eigen 1,25 ton zware auto. Die zal rond de zon draaien, tussen de Aarde en Mars. Op het verste punt zal hij 400 miljoen kilometer van ons verwijderd zijn. In de ruimte wordt de Tesla de snelste auto ooit, met een snelheid van ongeveer 42.000 kilometer per uur.
AP & SpaceXDe krachtigste draagraket staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform. Aan boord ook de rode Tesla van Elon Musk.
De lancering vanaf lanceerplatform Apollo 39A op Cape Canaveral in Florida was aanvankelijk gepland voor 19.30 uur Belgische tijd, maar werd uiteindelijk uitgesteld naar 21.45 uur omwille van hevige wind. Stipt op tijd ging de raket onder luid gejuich van een live publiek de lucht in. Meer dan twee miljoen kijkers volgden de lancering online op het SpaceX-YouTubekanaal. Onderweg klonk het ‘Space Oddity’ van David Bowie uit de speakers, hoewel daar in het luchtledige van de ruimte niet veel van te horen zal zijn. Achter het stuur zat een pop, Starman.
Om los te komen van de grond had de raket 27 motoren, die evenveel kracht hebben als achttien Boeings 747. Toen de taak van de zogeheten boosters erop zat, keerden ze voorzichtig terug naar de aarde, waar ze veilig landden op Cape Canaveral, klaar voor hergebruik. Het lanceerplatform ademt trouwens geschiedenis uit, want ook Neil Armstrong werd vanaf deze basis naar de maan gestuurd.
YouTube Space XEen camera op de raket nam dit beeld van de Tesla van Elon Musk met pop Starman.
In april 2011 al maakte SpaceX bekend dat “the world’s most powerful rocket” een lanceerdatum had. Al kwam het bedrijf niet verder dan ‘eind 2013 of 2014’. Die datum bleek veel te optimistisch. De raket is pas in het tweede deel van december vorig jaar geassembleerd, waarna het gevaarte goed een maand geleden rechtop werd gezet. Tot de kortstondige shutdown van de Amerikaanse overheid roet in het eten gooide. Op 24 januari volgde eindelijk de eerste test waarbij alle 27 motoren tegelijkertijd ontbrand werden - een huzarenwerk.
En dus was vandaag ook een absoluut nagelbijtmoment. Na jaren uitstel en het feit dat het productieproces “veel moeilijker” bleek dan gedacht, volgde eindelijk de maiden trip. Die voor Musk al geslaagd zou zijn “indien de Falcon Heavy ver genoeg van haar lanceerplatform afkomt, zodat het niet beschadigd raakt”. “Dat zou ik eerlijk gezegd zelf al als winst beschouwen,” liet hij eerder optekenen. En dat lukte meer dan behoorlijk.
Infografieken Nederland
Wat de Heavy nu eigenlijk zo speciaal maakt? In feite is hij het sterkere broertje van de Falcon 9 met nog eens twee extra stuwmotoren, die aan weerszijden zijn gemonteerd. De Falcon Heavy heeft in totaal 27 raketmotoren, drie keer zoveel als waar de Falcon 9 over beschikt. De Heavy wordt zo de krachtigste raket sinds de maanraket Saturn V, die sinds 1973 niet meer heeft gevlogen. En heeft meer dan tweemaal de vrachtcapaciteit van de krachtigste raket op de huidige markt (voor de specialisten: de Delta IV Heavy, goed voor 28,8 ton). Ook andere huidige operationele raketten komen lang niet in de buurt van de stuwkracht van de Falcon Heavy. De in 2011 door de NASA uit dienst genomen Space Shuttle bijvoorbeeld kon een vracht van 24.000 kilo in een lage baan om de Aarde brengen. Volgens SpaceX kan hun tuig 63.800 kilo aan. Op een reis naar Mars zou dat 16.800 kilo zijn.
SpaceX zet trouwens de commerciële lanceermarkt op zijn kop, want doel van de Heavy: de komende twee jaar ruimtetoeristen naar de maan en Mars laten vliegen. De raket die de lucht in moet gaan, zal echter vooral gebruikt worden voor vrachtmissies waarbij satellieten in een baan om de Aarde worden gebracht, bijvoorbeeld de zwaardere exemplaren van de Amerikaanse overheid.
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De Falcon Heavy staat klaar in haar lanceerplatform.
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Filer’s Files #5 – 2018 Secret Advanced Aircraft - PART I
Craft captured at Pratt and Whitney at Jupiter, Florida
Filer’s Files #5 – 2018 Secret Advanced Aircraft - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Former CIA Director Keep studying UFOs, Ancient Egypt in Illinois, Sphinx Part of Ancient Civilization, Artificial Moon, Alleged ET Abduction Last Year in DC, Pentagon’s Secret UFO Study on Coast to Coast Radio, Photos of Secret Advanced Aircraft in Florida, and Mars Dead Civilization
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C.,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Greece, Oman, Peru, Puerto Rico, Thailand, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles, Super Bowl Champions.
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Special Projects
In a recent Q&A session with Herald Tribune journalist Billy Cox (who writes about UFOs on his blog De Void), ex-CIA Director John Brennan made relevant comments with regard to UFOs and the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which basically boiled down to this: (1) UFOs are a concern, (2) they remain unexplained, and (3) he was aware of in-house endeavors to solve these unexplained events. John Owen Brennan was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017. He has served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama. His responsibilities included overseeing plans to protect the country from terrorism and respond to natural disasters, and he met with the President daily.
Ancient Egypt in Illinois
Historian Glenn Kimball provided updates of his research into ancient manuscripts as well as artifacts found in burial mounds in Southern Illinois (known as “Little Egypt”) that show North America was visited by overseas travelers thousands of years before Columbus set sail. The Mississippi Valley is home to over 10,000 burial mounds, which contrary to widely held academic opinion were not all left behind by Native Americans.
Black market relics found in the region depict Egyptian pharaohs, Moorish sailors, Christ on the cross, Jewish warriors, and Roman military imagery. Further, runes from artifacts found in Illinois, Michigan, California and Utah talk about migrations of people from the Middle East, Kimball said..
Kimball is currently working on gaining permission to dig in an area of Illinois where ground-penetrating radar has shown several chambers exist along a 1500 foot underground corridor. Glenn Kimball has successfully completed all course work for a Ph.D. in Communications and passed his doctoral exams. He was the former president of International Exchange School. Glenn taught at Southern Illinois University and has been collecting ancient texts since the age of fifteen and is famous for being able to integrate very diverse texts into a contiguous story line.
After 25 years of research, during which Kimball visited museums, Indian tribes, medicine men, and universities, he assembled some of the missing links and unsolved mysteries of Christianity. .
Harry Hubbard has written, several books, and articles concerning the archaeological discovery.
Harry reports on the Illinois caves, first discovered in spring of 1925 by Orville Lowery, of Hickory Hill, in the southeast corner of Marion County Illinois. Harry and fellow researchers were able to amass large quantities of information from the artifacts as to who the people were that constructed the “Illinois Mystery Cave” and the identities of the corpses who lay interred within it. Green area shows Mound Building areas that include European, Indians, and some giant remains.
Harry feels the mainstream archaeological community has suppressed America’s true history. Some of the artifacts depict strange but highly detailed images of humanoids, aliens, UFOs and more. The language depicted on the artifacts was decoded, using L.A. Wadell’s groundbreaking technique. Harry tells of the wars, famine and political upheaval in the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt and Cyprus as Rome conquered the area and why they may have fled, ultimately arriving in America.
Cleopatra VII was the last person to rule Egypt as an Egyptian pharaoh. After her death on August 12, 30 BC Egypt became a Roman province. Cleopatra VII was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and therefore was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great’s generals who had seized control over Egypt after Alexander’s death. Some researchers speculate this tomb is Alexander’s, Ptolemaic Pharaohs, and Cleopatra’s final burial place. It is thought Cleopatra took her family, numerous ships, supporters and sailed to Illinois and set up a base. Allegedly Alexander was buried in a solid gold coffin.
Strangely some the details from tablets clearly show Reptilian and other E.T. contact. Many of the carvings depict aliens, alien craft, that appear. Nothing here is made up or even slightly contrived. Harry outlines the parallels between Old World and New World contacts with E.T.’s 2000 years ago. There is evidence of contact with races from the sky. It is obvious these people were in contact with aliens most of whom appear to be reptilian.
The tomb had carvings of UFOs with tablets stating “A basket-like object magnificently comes and goes in a swift-like motion, and on its base can be observed many red lights twisting together.”
The presumption is that Alexander the Great’s Tomb or his heir who ruled the Midwest has been relocated to North America. The lineage of the Ptolemaic Dynasty and the History surrounding the fundamental facts of these persons are quite lengthy
Ancient King Alexander ruled the entire Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri River Basins, including the Great Lakes region through Canada east to encompass the island of Newfoundland and the immediate regions north and south along the Atlantic Coast. His domain was called “Aderion” in most texts and “Happyland” or “Land of Many Smiles” in others. His fleet of many ships was well supplied with goods, colonists and artisans. This Ancient King’s name is Alexander Helios (Helios, in Greek means Sun). The abbreviated symbol for his name is always his motif, and commonly appears with a Sun symbol. Alexander Helios has been missing from History since age 10, when he was last recorded by the ancient writer Cassius Dio, in his History, Book 51. Helios was born in 40 B.C. and had a twin sister named Selene. They were the oldest children birthed by Cleopatra to Mark Antony. Helios was of Royal lineage as was his father and mother. Recorded History provides no clues as to what happened to Alexander Helios after he became a palace hostage and somewhat adopted by Octavia, Octavian’s sister / Mark Antony’s former wife. History does record that Cleopatra Selene (twin sister) married Juba II, (also a hostage in the court of Octavian) who later was granted back his homeland of ancient Mauretania and acclaimed King Juba II by Octavian.
Working together, Alexander Helios and his brother-in-law King Juba II, have left their fingerprints all over this Monumental Ancient Tomb as can be easily seen by the 100’s of tablets representing their likenesses. There was commerce between America and Europe in ancient times. Hundreds of carvings of beautiful women, historic carvings from the Library in Alexandria.
Copper Mining
A great deal of copper mining occurred in Michigan that was shipped to Egypt and Europe. New research suggests that Isle Royale’s, Michigan mining boom peaked about 6000 years ago and left a legacy of aquatic pollution. The high levels of copper, lead, and potassium in sediments from a cove on the island point to a long and intense period of indigenous mining. New research suggests that Isle Royale’s mining boom peaked about 6000 years ago and left a legacy of aquatic pollution. The high levels of copper, lead, and potassium in sediments from a cove on the island point to a long and intense period of indigenous mining. Considering that BC period mining was determined to have stopped about the same time as the bronze age in Europe ended, there would be a good bet as to the reason why it stopped here. That and the older mines are dated to coincide directly with that same bronze age period. Unless that is we are still of the silly assumption that roughly 500,000 tons of copper was mined by the ancient Indians to make simple tools, jewelry and hooks with and there is no evidence that they ever used anywhere near even a fraction of that much copper in their culture. So where did all that copper go? To Europe and Egypt where pure copper is found.
Ten tons of copper oxhide ingots recovered from the late Bronze Age (1300 BC) Uluburun shipwreck off the coast of Turkey was “extraordinarily pure” (more than 99.5% pure), and that it was not the product of smelting from ore. The oxhides are all brittle “blister copper”, with voids, slag bits, and oxides, created when the oxhides were made in multiple pourings outdoors over wood fires. Only Michigan Copper is of this purity.
Sphinx Part of Ancient Civilization
Robert Schoch is best known for his argument that the Great Sphinx of Giza is much older than conventionally thought and that possibly some kind of catastrophe was responsible for wiping out evidence of a significantly older civilization. Schoch redated the famous monument to 7000–5000 BC, based on his argument that its erosion was due mainly to the effects of water. Rain that occurred in ancient times. The age of Virgo transisioned to the age of Leo in 10,5000 BC and many feel the Sphinx had a Lion’s face going back to that remote period. The present head appears much smaller than the large body and the calculations for the rain erosion could be extended back much further.
He received his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Y ale in 1983.
Schoch’s other theories include the belief that possibly all pyramids in Egypt, Mesoamerica and elsewhere represent a much older global culture such as the Visoko region (Bosnia). Robert’s book is called “Forgotten Civilization, the Role of Solar Outbursts in our Past and Future” Schoch’s proposes that in 9,700 BCE the Sun experienced a super storm with its electoral plasma discharges blasting Earth and causing total destruction and devastation triggering floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and plunging nascent civilization into a dark age. The pyramids design helped them exit through the super storm that may have been triggered by a super wave from the galactic center. Thanks to Robert Schoch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ao5SCedIk
Artificial Moon
Dr. Bruce Cornet — I attach below some more Lunar images that will show you some extraordinary evidence for artificial structures. I believe almost the entire near-side of the Moon is artificial down to at least 5 kilometers. You are correct:
This alien base is very old, and has been involved in at least one interplanetary war. Parts of it appear to have been rebuilt, but other parts are in essence vast graveyards for ancient ETs..
Mountain range in lower left of above image, when enlarged, shows that it is composed of many parallel layers of spheres, unlike any geologic formation. A close-up of mountain with a sharp vertical face, unlike anything that would occur naturally without crustal faulting. These mountains according to conventional interpretation were formed by meteor impact. If that is the case, their internal structure would be chaotic, not ordered and layered.
Those layers of spheres are highlighted with white lines in the image below. A building-like structures is outlined in white at the top of this mountain.
When that mountain exterior is enlarged, instead of smooth dust-covered igneous rocks, it appears like Swiss cheese, full of holes due to a composition of layers upon layers of geodesic spheres which are hollow.
With further magnification, the hollow sphere structure becomes evident. The underground Lunar base was probably printed by an enormous alien machine, and contains hollow cavities and chambers where alien life and resources existed.
The Shard is real. Goddard Space Flight Center has a display of the Shard image. Would Goddard knowingly promote a fake image? The Shard is real. I have reviewed it. It looked to me like a giant construction crane but it is so old the metal has all fused together. However the Moon seemed to be a hive of busy activity. The Moon is very old. If you look very closely at its surface you will see that it is covered with ruins of different ages, some extremely old, and made by different species. It did not originate in this solar system. It was brought here to protect ET operations on Earth. I assume it somehow forwards what the ETs extract from the Earth to its owners. They are, at a rough guess, 30-40,000 light years from here. They can have a war machine in my back yard in 7 hours, probably less if they really step on it. I know that because they did it when I first encountered them.
The local ETs are not doing us any harm. They are mining, but doing so at depths we cannot reach. Some of their experiments on the surface are annoying. I refer to abductions, which I assume are still going on although one never hears about them anymore. These data are new compared with what I have seen and heard on Ancient Aliens, History Channel. They haven’t figured out the magnitude and size of that lunar base, which they have thought was above ground and included obelisks. It may go down 5 km below the surface and be as large as the North American Continent. The aliens have been watching Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
I have many more images that blow the lid off of any natural Lunar landscape, and prove it is an enormous construct. This underground base is at least the size of the North American Continent! Thanks to Dr. Bruce Cornet
Alleged ET Abduction Last Year in DC
WASHINGTON, DC– Will Allen, a former White House, Air Force One and Marine 2 Engineer and director of UFODC, demonstrates replicable forensic evidence in this Webinar that the unexplained total disappearances of 37 African American youths [including their cell-phone & signals] from Northeast Washington, DC on January 5, 2017 is correlated with the over flight of interdimensional extraterrestrial spacecraft “the size of an aircraft carrier” over Washington, DC. When asked to speculate what the purpose of the ET mass abductions of humans might be, Will Allen speculates that one purpose might be, “A food source for the reptilian occupants of the cigar-shaped craft.”
As District of Columbia police, the U.S. Congress, and the White House do not appear capable of dealing with this public crisis based on Will Allen’s approach to each of these institutions, this crisis is now being made public by UFODC and by NewsInsideOut.com.
The disappearance and probable mass ET abduction of 37 African American youths from Northeast Washington DC in the dying days of the Obama Administration has not been addressed during the first year of the Trump Administration. Watch https://youtu.be/6R2E7N73Mw0 An attempted oppressive extraterrestrial intervention on Earth?
Pentagon’s Secret UFO Study on Coast to Coast Radio
Frank Chille writes, “On January 28, 2018, Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff were interviewed by George Knapp on Coast to Coast Radio.” You have to go to the web page to hear it. Both of them said there is much more to come, and they answered some of the doubts about the Navy UFO videos. The Nimitz and Gimbal UFO videos are both authentic. There is extensive written documentation and most important, radar plots.
Dr. Eric Davis described his role in the Pentagon program which has been front-and-center in the news since a New York Times
Dr. Hal Puthoff described his background beginning as Naval Intelligence officer working for the NSA, to his studies in laser technology, and eventually as a pioneer in the study of remote viewing at the behest of the CIA in the mid-1970s. He defended the recent revelations of apparent government UFO disclosure and his role in Tom DeLonge’s UFO research organization as an effort to “put some sunshine on this area and get it out, so that it’s no longer a subject of ridicule.” Puthoff said he had examined one of the pieces of metal that was announced in the Times article and described it as “layers of various kinds of materials that you wouldn’t expect to be put together” as well as the unusual properties that are gained from this unknown method of materials engineering. It’s not new elements, it’s layered alloys that are nearly impossible for us to reproduce. Don’t count Tom Delonge out just yet.
Dr. Bruce Cornet writes, “Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff were involved in BASS under Robert Bigelow Aerospace, which worked for the Pentagon between 2007 and 2012.” However the project didn’t stop, and continues in secret. Hal said he had very high security clearance and cannot reveal too much. He did reveal Bigelow has pieces of crashed craft, and he knows their exotic construction, is unlike anything manmade.
Knapp asked him what was so different with the metals, and Puthoff let slip that they are micro layered with different elements in layers, unlike anything we have made, he claimed. The layering is at the atomic level, and he speculated that this combination produced unique physical properties that we are trying to duplicate. Was he telling the truth, or was he giving us misleading information so that the Russians and Chinese won’t think we beat them to reverse engineering alien technology? Puthoff admitted to being part of the Cabal. Perhaps my legal case was designed to destroy my credibility. They realized I would eventually figure out the truth.
Reflections:
Puthoff and Davis had the opportunity to keep our professional conversations continuing since working for Bigelow at The National Institute for Discovery Science, known also as NIDS , but they did not reach out to me after I was fired. I got the feeling that they do not hold my UFO work in high regard or are not interested in it. Why? During a presentation to Bigelow and Kelleher in April 2004 at NIDS, Bigelow seemed disinterested in my data of Pine Bush UFO performances, as if he thought I couldn’t have been getting so much data. In other words, my data were not alien. Then in the middle of my talk, he walked out. Why?
Perhaps he knew that the hundreds of sightings and photos were of secret military vehicles and technology, and that I was being used by the CIA to classify what I saw and photographed as UFOs on the internet. The Black Triangles may be ours, and the Secret Space Program wanted the world to think they are alien.
As crazy as this explanation may seem, the Black Triangle performance in May 1997 was a Skunk Work’s creation, according to my partner, Marc Whitford, a Navy veteran, who witnessed it and was later told that. For more details see:
So, just how far along are we in developing alien technology? The maps NIDS created from the four databases show a fantastic increase in sightings of Triangles since the Belgian flap in 1989-1991. What most people will have a hard time accepting is that most of that increase is due to our own technology. That is why Bigelow walked out of my talk. He already knew my data were compromised with U.S. hardware. Does that make sense? Thanks to Bruce Cornet
Note: In 2002, Bigelow’s NIDS issued a report which said the black triangles were U.S. military prototype blimps, a finding agreed to by other experts but not confirmed by the military.
This Google Earth photo reveals a sleek aircraft parked at the end of a small runway due west of Jupiter, Florida. To make this discovery more intriguing, the vehicle is parked outside a building owned by Pratt & Whitney. According to the company’s website, it is a world leader in the design and manufacture of top-of-the-line military engines for 31 armed forces around the world. In late 1964, the Pratt & Whitney J58 jet engine powered the first flight of the SR-71 aircraft could reach mach 3.2 without breaking a sweat. The J58 was a single-spool turbojet with an afterburner. It had a unique bleed from the compressor to the afterburner which gave increased thrust at high speeds. Fifty years later it is logical to assume new aircraft can reach mach 5 or greater. Similar craft were seen over Pennsylvania and D.C.
Then back on September 7, 2017 secret advanced aircraft were seen fleeing from MacDill Air Force Base in Central Florida just three days before Hurricane Irma began ripping across the state. Below are photos of some of those fleeing craft that were provided to Dr. Michael Salla at exopolitics.org by a man identified only as JP. MacDill AFB is home of the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command
As the world marches closer to war, hypersonic aircraft and missiles are being developed and or tested mainly by the United States, Russia, and China. Other countries besides these three are developing hypersonic technologies to a lesser degree.
The race for hypersonic technologies is in full swing among global superpowers. The first nation to acquire these technologies will revolutionize their civilian aerospace and military programs.
As of January 2018, hypersonic technologies are still in development and or the testing phase with many superpowers, though, it’s anyone’s game at this point. Which leads us to an unidentified airport and testing grounds hidden in the swamplands of South Florida, some 24-miles inland on Bee-Line Highway, outside Jupiter, Florida. In the Google Earth photo a truck is towing the mysterious aircraft from a large rectangular white building to the white concrete pad. One of two things are possible: 1. Prepping for an engine test on the concrete pad. 2. Prepping for a flight using the runway.
Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation are located just a stone’s throw away from the secret airbase housing the mysterious aircraft. Interesting to note, Pratt & Whitney manufactures the scramjet engine for the X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle. Thanks to https://stockboardasset.com
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has confirmed that it is developing the SR-72 spy plane. The successor to the SR-71 Blackbird, which was capable of Mach 3.5, the SR-72 will be a hypersonic unmanned aircraft capable of Mach 6, or just over 4,500 mph. At hypersonic speeds, the SR-72 will be able to traverse any continent in around an hour — meaning, if they’re strategically positioned around the world on aircraft carriers, the US military can strike or survey any location on Earth in about an hour. It is also suspected that the SR-72’s hypersonic engine tech — some kind of hybrid scramjet — will find its way into the US military’s High Speed Strike Weapon (HSSW), a missile that can theoretically strike anywhere on Earth in just a few minutes. Thanks to Lockheed.
Mars Dead Civilization
Dr. John Brandenburg writes about the MIRROR news, The UFO Hunter disclosure:
This CIA declassified memo confirms government covert interest in Cydonia during the time period of the IMIT (Independent Mars Investigation Team) which was Jan- July 1984 and that they apparently also came to believe it was the remains of a dead civilization.
“The session allegedly took place on May 22 in 1984.” Our final report was not presented in public until the Case for Mars II conference in July 1984. Therefore, again, this confirms that the US government was also investigating the Cydonia area at that time. It would appear, based on remote viewing, that the government confirmed our verdict that it was a site of an ancient civilization. The day of Mars (but not UFO) disclosure , may thus be close. Note that the government has essentially endorsed the idea of a past Mars ocean, abundant water still on Mars, and evidence of Mars life (the meteorites). A dead Mars biosphere and past humanoid civilization may be next. Thanks to John Brandenburg
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Filer’s Files #5 – 2018 Secret Advanced Aircraft - PART II
Filer’s Files #5 – 2018 Secret Advanced Aircraft - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Object
Tombstone –Looking out towards Open Valley from Silver Mine I spotted strange object an focused in using camera zoom. Object is odd shaped and pure white and hovered for at least 5 minutes on March 17, 2017, with no detectable movement. Thought maybe it was a weird balloon but couldn’t see any tether and if it was free it would have drifted. My husband saw it too. Someone stopped to talk and when we looked back it was nowhere in sight. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
While watching the UsaToday live feed from LiveStream, they where showing Griffith Observatory live broadcast of the Lunar Eclipse Blue Blood Moon event on 1/31/2018.
I just happened to notice an object travelling at a very high rate of speed going down the left side of the moon and downwards to the left until it was out of the frame. Trailing behind the object was a pulsating/flashing light that seemed to flash at regular intervals.
The actual raw video file can be observed at the LiveStream website. Thanks to MUFON CMS
District of Columbia
I was leaving my daughter’s home in Washington D.C. to go to Reagan International Airport to catch my plane on November22, 2018 about 7:30 a.m. I had just visited my daughter and could clearly hear a jet and looked up to spot it. Then above us I saw a metal object just hovering silently. It was pretty high up morphing but solid. I take as many pictures as I can before I get in the car. My Son-In-Law prides himself on his knowledge of anything the flies so when I showed him the pictures. I live very close to Wright-Patterson Air Force base. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Object
Key Largo — I love sunsets and was heading north out of the keys and took two pictures of the red sunset above the water on January 17, 2018. Today as I was posting pics I was surprised to see this round object with five lights above the water. I didn’t notice the object until 10 days later. In the past, as I was heading down to the keys in the same area, I noticed a light emitting a glow from the ground. It peaked my curiosity, and I kept thinking, what is lit up over there. Maybe it’s a ship. In the past, I saw a triangle above an estuary in New Jersey, where there are no houses. The next day on the radio mentioned the sighting. When I saw this pic, I was shocked, and was hoping your brilliant team would be able to help me decipher this image. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Triangle
Mililani — I parked on Akamainui Street facing southwest on January 25, 2018. I just sensed something had glanced up and I saw a different thing than I’ve ever seen. Especially after I realized there were long horizontal lights down each tube, the tubes seemed to have some thick ribs spaced quite a distance apart. They were joined together with something thinner and darker. The pinnacle of the Isosceles triangle had a space where a star sized magenta light twinkled. After the flash it got a brighter white and all the other lights on the tubes grew brighter to drown out any definition. The clouds covered completely it. Shocked how large this very shiny triangle structure was (metallic/lead). Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Ball
Roberts— I was taking pics of some strange lines in the sky but got these metallic balls in quite a few photos.
Another night, my son and I witnessed a huge star like object. I saw a strange red beam in the sky and it appeared to be chasing a black ufo. These were all around in December. 2017 and January 1, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orbs
Momence — My handicapped sister takes pictures all the time of nature and the sky. We had been seeing blinking lights in the sky on January 6, 2018, of what looked like moving stars, but these “stars” flash red, blue, and green lights. Both of us tried to take a picture of what we thought was a drone, but the pictures came out like orbs. The silent object was in my neighbor’s yard and did not move. She states “I felt fearful”. “I knew it didn’t belong there”. She said it was a “vehicle” that wasn’t “ordinary. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Orbs
Evansville – On January 27, 2018, shortly after 6pm I was driving over to a friend’s home when my passenger and I observed a pair of bright orange objects approaching from the northeast. The objects were moving very fast and never varied in there spacing.
They passed in 4 pairs to the south. The encounter lasted about 6 minutes when a supersonic jet fighter flew past at low altitude. It was a beautiful site I feel homered to have witnessed the event.
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Massachusetts Orb Missing Time
Waltham — I took my dog out in our backyard on January 21, 2018, and noticed the yard was lit up. I looked up seeing 4 lights in straight line above the trees. I walked closer and it glowed all together into one bright white light changing to orange and moving up and down and flashing off and on. My dog barked and was afraid. I got my phone and started filming. My dog tried to hide under the porch. I thought I was seeing something I couldn’t explain and this started around at 6:30pm. I remember being outside for maybe 20 minutes when I got inside It was two hours later. My phone started getting static and died while filming. I went inside scared. I’ve been sick with headaches and nausea and severe nightmares. I could see a craft about 300 feet away from me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Lights
Kimball — I was outside shoveling snow at my home at 7:15 am, on January 10, 2018. I am a sky watcher so when I noticed some odd looking clouds forming I decided to take photos. I didn’t see the lights that are visible on my photo until just a couple days ago when I was looking through my pictures. Looking closer I noticed several other lights and a blue orb on left side of picture. I also noticed a square formation of 4 lights. I never saw any lights whatsoever. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Orbs
Maryland Heights — At around 7:30 p.m. on January 25,’2018, my girlfriend and I were driving back home to St. Charles. As I was driving up the entrance ramp to the highway, we both noticed four very noticeable, but strangely ‘dull’ circular lights moving in the sky, in a perfectly straight formation. They stayed horizontal before then moving in every direction. My girlfriend began recording the lights, as ‘top’ light suddenly ‘faded’ out and then re-appeared at the ‘bottom’ of the formation. The same light faded out again and appeared at the top of the formation.
Once I got off the highway, the lights moved into a triangular formation for 15 seconds before going back to the four-light formation. That was the last we saw of them for the night. I have no explanation for what I saw in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
I was reviewing a picture from a trip I took to the Oregon coast when I noticed a human-like figure with big black eyes looking into the window.
This came as a big shock to me as I did not experience anything paranormal during my stay. But, when I was around 7-8 yrs old I did see a UFO and an orb like reconnaissance vehicle are showed up in the photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Rocket
Lopez— We were hiking in State game lands along Mehoopany creek at Mythical falls when we observed this rocket like object higher in the sky than most planes. Moving very quickly across the sky first looking like a launched rocket going upward. It flew similar to how a satellite moves in orbital fashion. It was very clear out and you could see the body of the object but no wings, just a long dual vapor trail. Just curious what you think this might be. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington D.C. Object
My family and I were in DC for a White House tour on August 4, 2017. We climbed up into the Lincoln memorial where there the view is awesome, so I decided to take some pictures. It was around 11 a.m. and I took 3 pictures in a row of the Washington monument. Later, I noticed something on the right of the Washington memorial. I saw a little black disc shaped object just hovering next to it. It disappeared quickly within seconds of each other. The skies above the mall and the monument are a strict no fly zone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia object
Faulconbridge— The UFO came from the bushes hovered for a few seconds before taking off into the sky in a southerly direction. The photo was taken by the observer and her family on November18, 2018.
They took photos from their back porch that looks onto the Sassafras Gully in NSW. All witnesses to the event wish to remain anonymous.
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Greece UFO Cloud
Rethymno, Crete— This UFO cloaked in a cloud was seen over Crete on January 11, 2018. You can see that it’s breaking through the clouds. Don’t be fooled by these cloaked craft. Aliens are highly intelligent and often believe that human intelligence is incredibly inferior to them. Thus, humans will often assume the cloud is just a cloud. However, we at UFO Sightings Daily know different. Here it almost looks like an invasion. Very dark, almost sinister looking. Thanks to Scott C. Waring
Al Hamra – On January 25, 2018, at 10 am I was in the backyard and I saw object flying in a very strange way. I decided to take my phone and record a video. At first place I thought it was an airplane but later recognized how very slow it was floating in the air. So maybe it was a cylinder shaped object taken from the angle I was seeing this object.
It must be made of metallic materials. I kept recording the video until it disappeared and appeared again with another one following. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru Lights
Padre Abad– On January 26, 2018, at 11 pm, i saw a rectangular shape with 4 lights in a line. It turned on two exterior lights first, then it turned off and turned on two center lights. It then zoomed in and out all in a line towards me. It let me know I was watching it perform a whole show for me. It also made me feel as if it was my friend, I didn’t have a camera so later on I looked up sightings in the jungles of Peru and I found a similar picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Cylinder
Humacao— Cigar shaped objects and other unknown type objects were found in pictures taken on January 28, 2018
Numerous objects have been seen for decades. over Puerto Rico.
I did not observe the objects but when reviewing them on my computer. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Cloud
Mount Taishan— Captured over Thailand was a UFO cloaked as a cloud on January 14, 2018. Why would an alien race disguise their craft as a cloud? First they have rules, rules about interrupting without the governments consent. Second they have no intention to frighten people, they instead want to get as close as possible to the ground so that they can scan the inhabitants and their daily routines. I think the cloud cloak is actually pure genius on their part.
Thanks to Scott C. Waring News states: On the morning of the 14th, when many people are still asleep, the photographer Liu Guoqing of Thailand captured the wonderful scene in the sky. A cloud of a similar UFO, appeared in Mount Taishan, against the colorful sky. Dai top, many people also photographed this group “UFO cloud.” It is understood that this god-like cloud of flying saucer, the scientific name pod cloud, is a natural phenomenon of weather. If the temperature drops over the mountains, the moisture in the air condenses into a pod cloud. http://sd.dzwww.com/sdnews/201801/t20180114_16913600.htm
UK Orbs
Garthdee Crescent — I was walking my little sister to her nursery with my mum and I wanted to take picture of the contrails coming out of the planes on January 26, 2018
I believe they are actually chemtrails.
Anyways I didn’t look at the photo until later on that day and I noticed it and was confused.. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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After many long years of waiting, on Tuesday, SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket into space. Though it seemed the launch was going to be scrubbed, the Elon Musk’s aerospace company pulled it off just in time — just 45 minutes before the launch window closed.
And damn, did they do it in style.
Those at Cape Canaveral — and others watching from home — witnessed the rocket system, comprised of three boosters with nine engines each, collectively generate 5 million pounds of thrust at lift-off from launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
The Falcon Heavy launches on Tuesday.
As the rocket shot into the sky, worries that ice build-up on the central booster’s might fall onto the shorter side-cores was present, as the were concerns that the side boosters may snap off the central booster from the pressure. Luckily for SpaceX, those disaster scenarios didn’t occur as the rocket shot through the blue Floridian sky. There was no fireworks display of explosions on Tuesday, just controlled rocket science.
The real show was only beginning, though. The three boosters separated from each other on the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere, flipped according to plan, and headed back to Earth. The two side boosters landed side-by-side in perfect unison on landing pads near the launch site a few minutes after launch:
The central booster landed landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You, floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, a feat dampened only by a video camera that shorted out because of the heat and force of the incoming rocket.
Falcon Heavy droneship landing
The best was yet to come though: The payload for this demonstration mission — SpaceX hopes to show how its reusable rockets can be combined to carry heavier payloads and astronauts to space — was made for an internet audience.
His midnight-cherry Tesla Roadster, with a dummy in the driver’s seat, complete with a SpaceX branded spacesuit, was sent on a billion-year Martian orbit around the sun. The car safely separated from the payload fairing and there’s even a live feed of its orbit.
Musk has been talking about the Falcon Heavy rocket since 2011. It seemed it would launch in September, but that was pushed back due toJanuary, and then on January 27, Musk announced the launch date.
Then on Monday, SpaceX shared this incredible animation of what it expected the test launch to look like.
At 3:45 p.m. ET, Falcon Heavy took off from Launch Complex 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. It had successful stage and booster separation, and the two side cores executed a beautifully in sync landing at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2.
Unfortunately, it seems the center core did not settle on the company’s “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean as planned. While SpaceX has yet to confirm the loss of the core, in the audio of a SpaceX clip from the launch, a voice can be heard saying, “We lost the center core.”
Falcon Heavy, which is now the world’s most powerful rocket, carried a limited-edition Tesla Roadster as its payload, which will travel in an elliptical orbit around the Sun on its way toward Mars. Yes, seriously.
Don’t let the sports car (complete with spacesuit-clad dummy) playing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” distract you from the real, concrete achievement here, though. In addition to adding to the issue of space junk in a unique way, the car’s trip toward Mars proves that Falcon Heavy is able to carry impressive payloads far beyond Earth.
Humanity’s Next Stop
Though originally designed to carry people, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told reporters during a teleconference on February 5 that Falcon Heavy will likely not be used for crewed missions. “It looks like BFR development is moving quickly, and it will not be necessary to qualify Falcon Heavy for crewed spaceflight,” said Musk, according to SpaceNews. “We kind of tabled the Crew Dragon on Falcon Heavy in favor of focusing our energy on BFR.”
However, Musk did note that unexpected delays in BFR development could change that. “We’ll see how the BFR development goes,” he said. “If that ends up taking longer than expected, then we will return to the idea of sending a Crew Dragon on a Falcon Heavy around the Moon and potentially do other things with crew on Falcon Heavy.”
It may or may not be Falcon Heavy, but someday, you or I could travel to Marsaboard a SpaceX craft. Seem like sci-fi? So does the idea of a billionaire entrepreneur sending his personal car into space to test a massive rocket.
Image Credit: SpaceX
Beyond SpaceX, humanity’s options for vehicles to the Moon or Mars are limited. NASA is currently developing the Space Launch System (SLS), which is set to be more powerful than Falcon Heavy and just as capable of ferrying passengers. Current estimates suggest that it will be ready in 2022, but delays are common where massive rockets are concerned.
Overall, Falcon Heavy seems like the clear winner between the two vehicles because it’s less expensive. Heavy launches will only cost $90 million as opposed to the $500 million to $1 billiona SLS launch would run. Given the limitations of NASA’s budget and the current administration’s urgent desire to return to the Moon, SpaceX’s rocket seems to be a compelling alternative for a Mars mission.
Today’s successful Falcon Heavy launch will help SpaceX generate interest in space exploration. That interest could translate to new partnerships and increased funding, which the company will need to support their ambitious work to get humanity to our next stop: Mars.
Success! SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket on Historic Maiden Voyage
Success! SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket on Historic Maiden Voyage
By Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first Falcon Heavy rocket built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX soared on its maiden voyage today (Feb. 6) — a historic test flight that also sent a car toward Mars and included two confirmed booster landings.
Billed as the world's most powerful booster since NASA's Saturn V, the Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39A here at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) — the same site used by NASA's Apollo moon missions and space shuttles — at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045GMT).
Standing 23 stories tall, the Falcon Heavy rocket is SpaceX's largest rocket yet and the most powerful booster since NASA's mighty Saturn V moon rocket. Its first stage is powered by three core boosters based on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets, with 27 engines (nine per booster) firing in unison to produce about 5 million lbs. of thrust (22,819 kilonewtons) at liftoff. [SpaceX's 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Flight in Pictures]
SpaceX's new Falcon Heavy rocket soars into the sky after a successful liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Feb. 6, 2018.
Credit: SpaceX
The rocket will eventually launch payloads of up to 141,000 lbs. (64,000 kilograms) into orbit. That's about twice the payload capacity of its nearest competitor, the Delta IV Heavy, built by United Launch Alliance.
"This is a test flight," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said yesterday (Feb. 5). "If the test flight works, I think we'd be ready to put satellites on the next mission." That mission, Musk added, could occur within the next three to six months.
A car in space, and reused rockets
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy test flight was arguably one of the most anticipated rocket launches in years, with an estimated 100,000 spectators expected to visit Florida's Space Coast to witness the event. Among those in attendance was famed Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who watched as the Falcon Heavy launched from the same pad he used to fly to the moon in 1969.
The two side boosters of the first stage have flown before. One launched the Thaicom 8 communications satellite in May 2016, and the other lofted a Dragon cargo ship for NASA in July 2016, according to SpaceX. [SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Explained (Infographic)
The Falcon Heavy's two side boosters returned to Cape Canaveral to stick a historic double landing after SpaceX's new megarocket successfully launched on its first test flight on Feb. 6, 2018.
Credit: SpaceX
In a sort of cosmic dance, the three first-stage core boosters returned to Earth much like SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets have in the past. Two boosters touched down at SpaceX landing sites at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station near KSC. The third was scheduled to land on SpaceX's drone-ship landing pad "Of Course I Still Love You," stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. However, the video feed on the drone cut out before the booster set down. The landings occurred in the span of 21 seconds about 8 minutes after launch as the second stage carrying the test payload continued on to space.
SpaceX has now successfully landed Falcon-family rockets 24 times — three on this mission alone. (The rocket family is named after another famously reusable spaceship, the fictional Millennium Falcon from "Star Wars," Musk has said.)
But perhaps the biggest draw of today's launch was the Falcon Heavy's unique payload: a Tesla Roadster riding atop the rocket's second stage.
A dummy passenger in a Tesla Roadster rode aboard the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy on Feb. 6.
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redit: SpaceX
Musk announced in December that the "midnight cherry red" convertible, which he owns, would be the first Falcon Heavy payload. Then, on Monday, he revealed another surprise: a spacesuit-clad mannequin called "Starman"(a reference to David Bowie's song "Starman") in the driver's seat, with its right hand on the wheel and left arm resting on the door.
About 28 minutes into today's test flight, the second stage carrying the Roadster shut down its engine, ending the main phase of the Falcon Heavy test flight. If all goes well, the second stage will coast for 6 hours through Earth's Van Allen belts, regions of extremely high radiation, and then restart its engine to send the Roadster and Starman toward Mars.
That maneuver will send the Roadster into orbit around the sun and, in turn, eventually carry the car and Starman about 248 million miles (400 million kilometers) from Earth.
"It will essentially be an Earth-Mars cycler," Musk said, adding that the orbit should bring the Roadster near Mars. There is an "extremely tiny" chance the car could hit the Red Planet, he added.
There are three cameras on the Roadster, Musk said, adding that they should capture "epic views" during the mission.
"I'm not worried about the car," Musk said. "It'll be fine."
A future for Falcon Heavy
The Falcon Heavy outside SpaceX's facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Credit: Robert Pearlman/collectspace.comWhen Musk first announced the Falcon Heavy in April 2011, he predicted that its first flight could occur by 2013. But that year came and went, followed by more, as SpaceX tackled the nuances of building a reusable heavy-lift rocket.
Now, with the first test flight in the books, SpaceX is ready to forge ahead with commercial satellite launches. Two missions are scheduled for 2018: the launch of the Arabsat 6A communications satellite, and the Space Test Program 2 mission for the U.S. Air Force, which also includes a solar-sail mission for The Planetary Society.
The Falcon Heavy's raw power, combined with its reusable design, represents a giant leap forward for SpaceX.
"This would be a major milestone in heavy lift," Scott Hubbard, editor of the peer-reviewed journal New Space and an adjunct professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, told Space.com before the launch. "A successful test would really advance, in my view, the potential for planning commercially acquired launch services for deep space."
SpaceX aims to sell Falcon Heavy launches for about $90 million per flight. (The single-core Falcon 9 launches sell for $62 million per flight.) By reusing the Falcon Heavy boosters, the company hopes to drastically reduce the cost of heavy-lift space missions to near that of its Falcon 9 missions.
"If we are successful in this, it is game over for all other heavy-lift rockets," Musk said.
The Falcon Heavy is part of a growing list of SpaceX launch services and ongoing projects. The company already provides satellite launch services and Dragon cargo delivery missions for NASA using its Falcon 9 rockets.
SpaceX is also building a crewed version of the Dragon space capsule to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, with the first flights scheduled for later this year.
Meanwhile, SpaceX is developing a launch system even larger than the Falcon Heavy, called the BFR (or Big Falcon Rocket). That booster, Musk has said, is designed to launch hundreds of people into space at one time and could be used to transport passengers around the world quickly for point-to-point travel.
Musk said he was thinking of the BFR on Monday while visiting the Falcon Heavy at the launchpad ahead of today's launch.
"I'm looking at Falcon Heavy, and I'm thinking, 'It's a bit small,'" he said.
Space.com senior writer Michael Wall contributed to this report from San Francisco.
Scientists find TRAPPIST-1 planets are temperate and have more water than Earth
Scientists find TRAPPIST-1 planets are temperate and have more water than Earth
A set of new studies sheds light on the properties of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system that is considered the most optimal candidate for finding biological life outside of our solar system.
The recently published studies in the journals Nature Astronomy and Astronomy and Astrophysics shed light on the TRAPPIST-1 star system, and offer new insight into the planets’ composition.
The new studies suggest the tightly-packed planets located some 40 light years from Earth are the best chance of discovering alien life. Ever since the planets were discovered, scientists have been studying the star system to understand what the planets are like on their surface.
Now, the recently published studies suggest that the planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1have great potential to host lie, although researchers caution they are ‘far from establishing’ this for certain.
The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system is made up of seven planets (b, c, d, e, f, g, h) that orbit around the star and, although scientists argue their composition rocky, they are not sterile rocky worlds.
“We now know more about TRAPPIST-1 than any other planetary system apart from our own,” said Sean Carey, manager of the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California, and co-author of the new study. “The improved densities in our study dramatically refine our understanding of the nature of these mysterious worlds.”
Based on the analysis of how starlight interacts with the planets’ atmospheres, scientists concluded that all seven alien worlds are made of rock just like the Earth, with water accounting for as much as five percent of their mass. Our planet, for example, only has 0.02%.
As for the size, density and amount of radiation the planets receive from their star, the fourth planet (TRAPPIST-1e) is the most similar to Earth; It seems to be the Earth-like in terms of its size and could house liquid water, as reported by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Furthermore, researchers also found that the seven planets are considered temperate, which means that under a certain set of geological and atmospheric conditions, all of the planets could meet the necessary requirements to allow water to remain in a liquid form on their surface.
Speaking about TRAPPIST-1, Dr. Amaury Triaud, from the University of Birmingham, a leading member of the international team, said:
“Of the seven planets, and of all the exoplanets that have been identified so far, Trappist-1e is the most resembling Earth, when we consider the amount of energy a planet receives from its star, and its density, which reflects its internal composition. As our next step, we would like to find out whether the planet has an atmosphere since our only method to detect the presence of biology beyond the solar system relies on studying the chemistry of an exoplanet’s atmosphere.”
More information about the TRAPPIST-1 system, and whether or not it’s an ideal place for alien life to thrive will become clearer once NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope is launched into orbit next year.
A landmark radio astronomy project is about to unveil its first prototype dish antenna.
Tomorrow, researchers and engineers with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)—to be the largest radio telescope in the world—will inaugurate the dish at a test site in Shijiazhuang, China. And they expect to erect a sister prototype in South Africa by April. But funding, technical, and bureaucratic challenges have forced planners to downsize the first phase of the SKA—envisioned to include hundreds of dishes in South Africa and thousands in Australia—and delay completion by at least 2 years, to 2026.
Still, SKA officials are thrilled to see the first prototypes appear. “It’s great to actually see metal being deployed,” says Phil Diamond, director-general of the SKA Organisation, based in Manchester, U.K. “This is the culmination of a 5-year design program.”
When complete, the SKA will be much more sensitive than current radio telescopes that collect electromagnetic signals from space. In the first phase, Australia is expected to host some 130,000 dishes designed to collect low-frequency signals, while South Africa will host nearly 200 midfrequency dishes. Planners hope to substantially increase those numbers in a second phase. Researchers will use data collected by the linked arrays to investigate a wide range of questions, including what happened just after the big bang and whether there is other life in the universe.
The €674 million project, now backed by 10 partner countries, originally hoped to begin construction in 2018. But that date was pushed back to 2020 as a result of organizational hurdles, including the creation of an organization to oversee the SKA Observatory, and funding troubles forced a downsizing. Diamond says those issues have been resolved, but that countries still need to sign the legal documents.
In the meantime, the first prototype midfrequency dish, built by Chinese company CETC54 in collaboration European partner companies, will be unveiled tomorrow in China, to be joined within a few months by a second prototype in South Africa. The Chinese-led consortium’s design won out against Canadian and South African competitors, in part because of the dish’s superior structural integrity. The midfrequency dishes will need to survive the telescope’s 50-year operational life, so they will be rigorously tested.
Researchers expect to spend at least 6 months, and likely more, testing the two prototypes before attempting to move to full-scale production. “They’re at the start of a long road,” says Tony Beasley, head of the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia. (The United States is not a SKA partner.) “You need to make sure design is correct.”
Bryce Zabel has a long list of achievements in the feature film and television industry. Much of this includes UFO and alien related projects. This includes writing and producing the NBC series Dark Skies and the Syfy movie Official Denial. He also was on the writing staff of Steven Spielberg’s Taken and ABC’s Lois and Clark (don’t forget, Superman is an alien). More recently, he co-wrote the book A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact with Richard Dolan. He is currently working on two UFO related movies. One is about the Betty and Barney Hill abductions and the other is a movie about the work of Roswell researchers Stanton Friedman and Don Schmitt.
In this interview, we discuss Bryce’s current project, some interest from a famous Hollywood actor/comedian and what it is like making UFO/Alien related entertainment projects. We also discuss Bryce’s upcoming talk at the 2018 International UFO Congress.
The Pentagon has been chasing UFOs for a long, long time
The Pentagon has been chasing UFOs for a long, long time
Projects that began more than five decades ago and still continue to this day include efforts to evaluate bizarre sightings and exotic objects, scan the skies for signs of intelligent transmissions, and develop instruments capable of sniffing out signs of life on faraway worlds. The fact that the government chose to spend some cash on a supposedly scientific look at UFOs—particularly as they could be crucially related to national security threats—really should be no surprise, says Seth Shostak, one of the SETI Institute’s senior alien hunters.
1970s and ‘80s: CIA Investigations of Paranormal and Psychic Phenomena The 1970s and 1980s saw the CIA investigating a bunch of phenomena associated with UFO sightings, such as parapsychology and psychic happenings. According to CIA report “Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90 (A Die-Hard Issue)”, “CIA officials also looked at the UFO problem to determine what UFO sightings might tell them about Soviet progress in rockets and missiles and reviewed its counterintelligence aspects.”
1976-1993: SETI/HRMS The only time the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has been written into a NASA budget line, this decade provided as much as $12 million a year for searches using the Arecibo and Goldstone antennas. Around 1990, the government’s SETI program—headquartered at NASA’s Ames Research Center—was renamed the High Resolution Microwave Survey in an attempt to avoid cancellation. Nevada senator Richard Bryan ended up cancelling the program anyway in 1993, right after actual observations had started.
1990s to now: NASA’s Astrobiology Institute Founded in 1998, the NASA Astrobiology Institute is one of many projects within the space agency aimed at investigating the possibility that life exists elsewhere in the cosmos. Scientists under its umbrella are currently thinking about whether life once existed on Mars, if there might be organisms tucked beneath the icy shells of the moons Europa and Enceladus, and how we would even recognize what life beyond Earth looks like if and when we see it. Now, and beyond.
Other ongoing work that continues to rely on federal funds includes developing instruments capable of detecting not only exoplanets but also alien biospheres, as well as work using organisms and environments on Earth as extraterrestrial analogs.
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.